Month: May 2023
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tuesday thoughts 5.30.23
Here’s some Tuesday thoughts for you… Don’t go about today wishing it was already the end of the week. Don’t tell yourself that Mondays suck and that you wish you were doing something else and you can’t wait for the weekend. Go get after today. Tell today that it’s not going to win, you are.…
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forbidden lessons in a kabul guesthouse
Forbidden Lessons in a Kabul Guesthouse by Suraya Sadeed – Review and Thoughts “‘When there is life, there is hope’” Dr. Abdullah in Forbidden Lessons in a Kabul Guesthouse by Suraya Sadeed Suraya Sadeed brings us through her husband’s death, a horrifying event that sparked her humanitarian work to bring aid and relief to women…
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last library haul
This will be my last library haul for a few months. It was kind of a bittersweet quick visit, that ended in catastrophic internal pandemonium and utter lack of control as always. I brought most of my last haul back (as I hoard those that I have to take notes on) to the library. I…
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ace of spades by faridah abike-iyimide
Ace of Spades by Faridah Abike-Iyimide – Thoughts Devon and Chiamaka are two of Niveus Private Academy’s new prefects. But almost as soon as it seems that senior year is going to be both of their years and both Devon and Chiamaka are in the competition to be graduating valedictorian, an anonymous number sending out…
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reviewing classics
I don’t really like “reviewing” classics because I feel like I’m back in school and my imposter syndrome really shows through there. I did okay in literature classes in school, but I truly never liked having to dive deep into most of the books I had to read. This is one of the reasons why…
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the oath by frank peretti
The Oath by Frank Peretti – Short Review and Thoughts “The murmur of the bones: As you are, we once were; as we are, you soon will be” Frank Peretti, The Oath In Hyde River, people sometimes go missing. But the residents of Hyde River have taken an Oath that they don’t speak of those…
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seoulmates by jen frederick
Seoulmates by Jen Frederick – Review and Thoughts “If you’re miserable and you do nothing, you’re complicit in your own misery.” Jen Frederick, Seoulmates Hara Wilson is a Korean-American adoptee who has traveled to Seoul to find her biological mother. Hara wasn’t expecting to fall in love with Choi Yujun when she arrived in Korea,…
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